Items with tag “Eric Hoffmayer”

June 30, 2010, 5:00AM

"Those animals are going to succumb," said University of Southern Mississippi scientists Eric Hoffmayer. "Taking mouthfuls of oil is not good. It is not the toxicity that will kill them. It's that oil is going to be sticking to their gills and everything else." Full story »

August 16, 2009, 12:19PM

The radio aboard the boat crackled as the spotter plane reported in. "Gunslinger, we have a whale shark. ... Here come the coordinates." The gigantic fish, perhaps 25 feet long, was seen swimming at the surface, headed north, about five miles off of Orange Beach. Full story »